Word: never
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...know," continued "Buffalo," 'I never give interviews. But this isn't an interview. It is just a few moments' quiet talk about the Girl Scouts...
...March from the Court's robing room is a thing of simple grandeur never witnessed in its entirety save by members of the Court and their Maker. Out of the robing room on the west of the Capitol's central public corridor, across the corridor between heavy red-plush ropes held by ununiformed attendants, the Justices pass into and through a private corridor to a door at the northeast corner of their Chamber. To and through this door they march in a peculiar order. They must sit at the bench in the order of their seniority, with juniors...
Currently published is a book called The Psychology of Happiness by Professor Walter B. Pitkin of Columbia University.* Therein it is stated that Woodrow Wilson had, from childhood, "a constitutional infirmity which he struggled to hide and did hide with such cunning the world never suspected it." This was "the first-and perhaps most poisonous-virus of his unhappiness...
...alleged Wilson infirmities were "shameful" or "monstrous." "Thousands of people cheerfully exhibit and endure far worse ills of the flesh. . . . He might have avoided most of the myriad condemnations simply by being honest and admitting physical frailties. But this would have interfered with his restless aspirations. Voters would never elect sick men as governors and presidents...
President Angel admits that undergraduate and alumni locality have focalized around the class. Then why discard such a potential weapon, for one which has yet to be tried and which, no matter how successful, can never even gracefully imitate such an essentially democratic and all-Yale line of division as the class? Yale is vexed with too many social lines of cleavage now, without adding a basically artificial substitute for the most popular method of division yet found. The class is one of the few weapons which Yale possesses to prevent the beast from biting the hand that feeds...